WHO calls on the United States to share all its information on the origin of the disease

The WHO on Friday March 3 urged all countries, including the United States, to share their information on the origins of Covid, after the FBI and the United States Department of Energy ruled that a laboratory leak caused the pandemic.

“If a country has information on the origins of the pandemic, it is essential that this information is shared with the WHO and the international scientific community”, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at his regular press conference. It’s not about “identify culprits”but of “advance our understanding of how this pandemic began”he specified.

The track of a laboratory accident favored by the FBI

The boss of the WHO sees it as a “scientific imperative” but also “moral” vis-à-vis the millions of victims and their families. He lamented “the politicization continues” of this quest for the origins of the worst pandemic in a century, which has transformed “what should be a purely scientific process into a geopolitical game”.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray said this week that a lab accident in Wuhan, China was “very probably” at the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic, two days after a similar hypothesis put forward by the American Department of Energy.

New intelligence elements would have tilted the analysis of the American Department of Energy on the side of the hypothesis of the leak, according to anonymous sources quoted, in particular, by the New York Times* and CNN*. The US intelligence world is now even more divided, with some agencies believing that Covid arose through natural transmission. For its part, the FBI also accused China of trying to block the investigation led by the United States into the causes of the Covid-19 pandemic. Beijing vigorously disputes these claims.